Sentences with phrase «for environmental objections»

Then again, the offshore wind resource is much larger, with much less potential for environmental objections.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A Senate committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump's picks for key posts at the Environmental Protection Agency over the objections of Democrats who pointed to the nominees» past work for corporate clients they would now regulate.

Bearing in mind the relatively loose language of the ToR (see definition of «environmental effect» above) and that environmental assessment (EA) is a simply a process for decision - making that does not dictate any particular result, why not consider the GHGs associated with increased oil production and avoid what could be a crucial political and legal objection to the NGP?

The essential moral and theological objections to such a characterization would be with the adverbs «completely» and «entirely,» which are necessary to the materialist metaphysic but render the latter unhelpful as a foundation for any coherently imperative human moral sensibility (including environmental stewardship).

For many people, the objection wasn't just environmental but sprung from a sense that the forests signified English identity and traditions.

«It's unfortunate the Army Corps» plan allows for the continued disposal of potentially harmful materials into the Long Island Sound, despite the strong objections across the board from New York's elected officials, residents and environmental advocacy groups,» he said.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today declared Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal a Superfund site over the city's objections and after considering the designation for almost a year.

Albany's importance as a link in the energy - production chain is poised to grow under Global Partners» effort to win state permission to handle oil - sands crude and biofuels for shipping over objections of neighbors and environmental groups.

On top of the «insufficient» categorization, the EPA gave the proposed project an «Environmental Objections» rating, which is their technical speak for a project that would have significant environmeEnvironmental Objections» rating, which is their technical speak for a project that would have significant environmentalenvironmental impacts.

The EPA submitted a letter faulting the State Department's environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline for being «insufficient» and raising «Environmental Objections» toenvironmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline for being «insufficient» and raising «Environmental Objections» toEnvironmental Objections» to the project.

Virginia's State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved three of Dominion's new gas plants in a row over the objections of environmental advocates, and North Carolina's Utility Commission recently approved Duke's new gas units in Asheville (though for now it has turned down a request for a third).

While diverting rivers in Canada to supply fresh water for irrigation in the US would galvanize protests from the environmentalists, the point is that while it is not currently politicaly correct, accomplishing this feat is well within our technological capabilities and when the choice becomes divert or starve, the environmental objections tend to get drowned out.

«The Mining Act should be amended to ensure that environmental objections [arising through the provisions for «public interest» objections, which also permit Indigenous objections in the court] are not heard by the Warden's Court», Report, p85.

(e) The Committee should not recommend removal of protections for Aboriginal heritage (currently held under Commonwealth heritage laws, WA Mining Act objections, and WA environmental assessment procedures)- recommendations that have the effect of increasing dependency on the AH Act (4.3 (a)- (c)-RRB-.